Stephen King quotes - page 31

But I think there are a set of experiences that turn a potential writer into a working writer, and then there are places in your life were you start to recognize what you want to do. (Stephen King)
We're news junkies in my house. View quote
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Some things it don't pay to be curious about. View quote
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He began to cry, not hysterically or screaming as people cry when concealed rage with tears, but with continuous sobs who has just discovered that he's alone and will be for long. He cried because safety and reason seemed to have left the world. Loneliness was a reality, but in this situation madness was also remotely a possibility. View quote
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You pay for what you get, you own what you pay for... and sooner or later whatever you own comes back home to you. View quote
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And almost idly, in a kind of sidethought, Eddie discovered one of his childhood's great truths. Grownups are the real monsters, he thought. View quote
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Hug and kiss whoever helped get you - financially, mentally, morally, emotionally - to this day. Parents, mentors, friends, teachers. If you're too uptight to do that, at least do the old handshake thing, but I recommend a hug and a kiss. Don't let the sun go down without saying thank you to someone, and without admitting to yourself that absolutely no one gets this far alone. View quote
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Every religion lies. Every moral precept is a delusion. Even the stars are a mirage. The truth is darkness, and the only thing that matters is making a statement before one enters it. Cutting the skin of the world and leaving a scar. That's all history is, after all: scar tissue. View quote
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You have to stay faithful to what you're working on. View quote
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Dreams age faster than dreamers. View quote
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Writers remember everything...especially the hurts. Strip a writer to the buff, point to the scars, and he'll tell you the story of each small one. From the big ones you get novels. A little talent is a nice thing to have if you want to be a writer, but the only real requirement is the ability to remember the story of every scar. Art consists of the persistence of memory. (Stephen King)
JK Rowling created seven Horcruxes. She put a part of her soul in every book and now her books will live forever. View quote
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I'm not a big fan of psychoanalysis: I think if you have mental problems what you need are good pills. But I do think that if you have thinks that bother you, things that are unresolved, the more that you talk about them, write about them, the less serious they become. View quote
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We've switched from a culture that was interested in manufacturing, economics, politics - trying to play a serious part in the world - to a culture that's really entertainment-based. View quote
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It's a mystery. That's the first thing that interests me about the idea of God. If there is one, it's mysterious and powerful and awesome to even consider the concept, and you have to take it seriously. View quote
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Americans are apocalyptic by nature. The reason why is that we've always had so much, so we live in deadly fear that people are going to take it away from us. View quote
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And poets, in my view, and I think the view of most people, do speak God's language - it's better, it's finer, it's language on a higher plane than ordinary people speak in their daily lives. View quote
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Let's face it. No kid in high school feels as though they fit in. View quote
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And in real life endings aren't always neat, whether they're happy endings, or whether they're sad endings. View quote
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Eddie discovered one of his childhood's great truths. Grownups are the real monsters, he thought. View quote
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That's the curse of the reading class. We can be seduced by a good story even at the most inopportune moments. (Stephen King)
I don't want you to apologize for being rich; I want you to acknowledge that in America, we all should have to pay our fair share. View quote
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I never saw any of my dad's stories. My mother said he had piles and piles of manuscripts. View quote
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I've always believed in God. I also think that's the sort of thing that either comes as part of the equipment, the capacity to believe, or at some point in your life, when you're in a position where you actually need help from a power greater than yourself, you simply make an agreement. View quote
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What charitable 1 percenters can't do is assume responsibility - America's national responsibilities: the care of its sick and its poor, the education of its young, the repair of its failing infrastructure, the repayment of its staggering war debts. View quote
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